✦ History

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Second Battle of al-Faw 1988-04-17 - 1988-04-18
1988 Chilean presidential referendum 1988-10-05
Spitak earthquake 1988-12-07
Lockerbie bombing 1988-12-21
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Exxon Valdez oil spill 1989-03-24
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre 1989-04-15 - 1989-06-04
Baltic Way 1989-08-23
Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-11-09
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31
Release of Nelson Mandela 1990-02-11
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1990-04-24
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 1990-08-02 - 1990-08-04
Gulf War 1990-08-02 - 1991-02-28
Human Genome Project 1990-10-01 - 2003-04-14
German reunification 1990-10-03
Air campaign of the Gulf War 1991-01-17 - 1991-02-23
Battle of Khafji 1991-01-29 - 1991-02-01
Liberation of Kuwait campaign 1991-02-24 - 1991-02-28
Battle of 73 Easting 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-26
Highway of Death 1991-02-26 - 1991-02-27
Battle of Medina Ridge 1991-02-27 - 1991-02-27
Croatian War of Independence 1991-03-31 - 1995-11-12
Yugoslav Wars 1991-03-31 - 2001-11-12
Ten-Day War 1991-06-27 - 1991-07-07
Dissolution of the Soviet Union 1991-08-24 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Vukovar 1991-08-25 - 1991-11-18
Siege of Dubrovnik 1991-10-01 - 1992-05-31
Algerian Civil War 1991-12-26 - 2002-02-08
Maastricht Treaty 1992-02-07
Transnistria War 1992-03-02 - 1992-07-21
Siege of Sarajevo 1992-04-05 - 1996-02-29
Bosnian War 1992-04-06 - 1995-11-21
Earth Summit 1992-06-03 - 1992-06-14
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia 1993-01-01
1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993-02-26
Oslo I Accord 1993-09-13 - 1993-09-13
Battle of Mogadishu (1993) 1993-10-03 - 1993-10-04
North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Rwandan genocide 1994-04-07 - 1994-07-19
Marrakesh Agreement 1994-04-15
1994 South African general election 1994-04-26 - 1994-04-29

People

Ahmed Abdallah age 68
President - Comoros
Mátyás Szűrös age 54
President - Hungary
Jaime Lusinchi age 63
President - Venezuela
Jaime Paz Zamora age 48
President - Bolivia
Spiros Cyprianou age 55
President - Cyprus
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 52
President - Ecuador
Kamisese Mara age 67
President - Fiji
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 49
King - Lesotho
Raif Dizdarević age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
José Napoleón Duarte age 62
President - El Salvador
Ċensu Tabone age 74
President - Malta
Hammer DeRoburt age 65
President - Nauru
Ernest Shonekan age 51
President - Nigeria
Ong Teng Cheong age 52
President - Singapore
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 63
President - Sri Lanka
José María Figueres Olsen age 33
President - Costa Rica
Alfredo Cristiani age 40
President - El Salvador
Wasim Sajjad age 46
President - Pakistan
Miguel Trovoada age 51
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ali Saibou age 47
President - Niger
Ali Kafi age 59
President - Algeria
Sylvestre Ntibantunganya age 31
President - Burundi
René Moawad age 62
President - Lebanon
Ugo Mifsud Bonnici age 55
President - Malta
Ramón José Velásquez age 71
President - Venezuela
Andrés Rodríguez age 64
President - Paraguay
Ertha Pascal-Trouillot age 44
President - Haiti
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 51
President - Sierra Leone
Qahhor Mahkamov age 55
President - Tajikistan
Guillermo Endara age 51
President - Panama
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 46
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 58
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 55
President - Haiti
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 73
President - Laos
Flavio Cotti age 48
President - Switzerland
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 72
President - Sri Lanka
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 38
President - Costa Rica
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 49
President - Somalia
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 61
President - Afghanistan
Said Mohamed Djohar age 69
President - Comoros
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 44
President - Honduras
José Azcona del Hoyo age 61
President - Honduras
Amos Sawyer age 42
President - Liberia
Paul Xuereb age 64
President - Malta
Kuniwo Nakamura age 44
President - Palau
Adolf Ogi age 45
President - Switzerland
Kazimierz Sabbat age 75
President - Poland
Isa Gambar age 31
President - Azerbaijan
John Haglelgam age 38
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Carlos Roberto Reina age 61
President - Honduras
Bernard Dowiyogo age 42
President - Nauru
Valentine Strasser age 20
President - Sierra Leone
Octavio Lepage age 64
President - Venezuela
Théodore Sindikubwabo age 60
President - Rwanda
Otto Stich age 61
President - Switzerland
Arnold Koller age 54
President - Switzerland
Bailey Olter age 55
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Thomas Remengesau age 56
President - Palau
Ramsewak Shankar age 50
President - Suriname
René Felber age 54
President - Switzerland
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 51
President - Panama
Tesfaye Genre Kidan age 51
President - Ethiopia
Penaia Ganilau age 69
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 78
President - Laos
Mamohato of Lesotho age 46
Regent - Lesotho
Johan Kraag age 74
President - Suriname
Abdelmalek Benhabyles age 66
President - Algeria
Ieremia Tabai age 38
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 70
President - Myanmar
Ngiratkel Etpison age 62
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 69
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Rosalio Lara age 65
President - Vatican City
Pjetër Arbnori age 53
President - Albania
Yaqub Mammadov age 47
President - Azerbaijan
François Ngeze age 35
President - Burundi
Prosper Avril age 50
President - Haiti
Marc Bazin age 55
President - Haiti
Teatao Teannaki age 52
President - Kiribati
Lazarus Salii age 51
President - Palau
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 51
President - Switzerland
Leonel Mário d'Alva age 52
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Ati George Sokomanu age 52
President - Vanuatu
Hérard Abraham age 47
President - Haiti
Veerasamy Ringadoo age 67
President - Mauritius
Marino Riccardi age 29
Captain Regent - San Marino
Sebastiano Baggio age 74
President - Vatican City
Kastriot Islami age 35
President - Albania
Cassam Uteem age 46
President - Mauritius
Kenos Aroi age 45
President - Nauru
David D. Kpormakpor age 52
President - Liberia
Maung Maung age 63
President - Myanmar
Gianfranco Terenzi age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Émile Jonassaint age 74
President - Haiti
Frederick Karlomuana Timakata age 52
President - Vanuatu
Akbarsho Iskandrov age 36
President - Tajikistan
Jean-Marie Léyé age 56
President - Vanuatu
Janez Stanovnik age 65
President - Slovenia
Qadriddin Aslonov age 40
President - Tajikistan
Ernesto Benedettini age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Cesare Gasperoni age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Edda Ceccoli age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Patrizia Busignani age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gloriana Ranocchini age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Gian Luigi Berti age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Romeo Morri age 35
Captain Regent - San Marino
Umberto Barulli age 67
Captain Regent - San Marino
David Nimley age 43
President - Liberia
Alfred Maseng age 39
President - Vanuatu
Mauro Fiorini age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alberto Cecchetti age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Germano De Biagi age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marino Zanotti age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ottaviano Rossi age 36
Captain Regent - San Marino
Paride Andreoli age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Domenico Bernardini age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Claudio Podeschi age 31
Captain Regent - San Marino
Roberto Bucci age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 34
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 64
Prime Minister - Singapore
Eduard Shevardnadze age 60
Prime Minister - Georgia
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 48
Prime Minister - Norway
Hassanal Bolkiah age 41
Prime Minister - Brunei
Leonid Kuchma age 49
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Václav Klaus age 46
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Nawaz Sharif age 38
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Tansu Çiller age 41
Prime Minister - Turkey
Victor Chernomyrdin age 49
Prime Minister - Russia
Stjepan Mesić age 53
Prime Minister - Croatia
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 48
Prime Minister - Portugal
Milo Đukanović age 26
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Hun Sen age 35
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Kim Campbell age 40
Prime Minister - Canada
Rafiq Hariri age 43
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jean Chrétien age 54
Prime Minister - Canada
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 43
Prime Minister - Mali
Janez Drnovšek age 37
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Felipe González age 45
Prime Minister - Spain
Egor Gajdar age 31
Prime Minister - Russia
Carl Bildt age 38
Prime Minister - Sweden
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 30
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Brian Mulroney age 48
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 58
Prime Minister - Australia
Paul Keating age 44
Prime Minister - Australia
Mahamadou Issoufou age 36
Prime Minister - Niger
Prem Tinsulanonda age 67
Prime Minister - Thailand
Ranil Wickremesinghe age 38
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Andreas Papandreou age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Hage Geingob age 46
Prime Minister - Namibia
René Préval age 45
Prime Minister - Haiti
Ruud Lubbers age 48
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Goh Chok Tong age 46
Prime Minister - Singapore
Girija Prasad Koirala age 63
Prime Minister - Nepal
Ingvar Carlsson age 53
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 50
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Haris Silajdžić age 42
Prime Minister - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 52
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen age 44
Prime Minister - Denmark
Fatos Nano age 35
Prime Minister - Albania
Konstantinos Mitsotakis age 69
Prime Minister - Greece
Davíð Oddsson age 40
Prime Minister - Iceland
Anerood Jugnauth age 57
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 50
Chancellor - Austria
Jean-Luc Dehaene age 47
Prime Minister - Belgium
Wilfried Martens age 51
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 54
Prime Minister - Malta
Vladimír Mečiar age 45
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Harri Holkeri age 51
Prime Minister - Finland
Mart Laar age 27
Prime Minister - Estonia
Poul Schlüter age 58
Prime Minister - Denmark
Mesut Yılmaz age 40
Prime Minister - Turkey
Eugenia Charles age 68
Prime Minister - Dominica
Nicolae Văcăroiu age 44
Prime Minister - Romania
Esko Aho age 33
Prime Minister - Finland
Sam Hinds age 44
Prime Minister - Guyana
Kazimira Prunskienė age 45
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Sitiveni Rabuka age 39
Prime Minister - Fiji
Ivars Godmanis age 36
Prime Minister - Latvia
Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 44
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
József Antall age 55
Prime Minister - Hungary
Omar Karami age 53
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jan P. Syse age 57
Prime Minister - Norway
Agathe Uwilingiyimana age 34
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Viačasław Kiebič age 51
Prime Minister - Belarus
Petre Roman age 41
Prime Minister - Romania
Krishna Prasad Bhattarai age 63
Prime Minister - Nepal
David Lange age 45
Prime Minister - New Zealand
George Cadle Price age 69
Prime Minister - Belize
Edgar Savisaar age 37
Prime Minister - Estonia
Miklós Németh age 40
Prime Minister - Hungary
Chuan Leekpai age 49
Prime Minister - Thailand
Yıldırım Akbulut age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 57
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Suchinda Kraprayoon age 54
Prime Minister - Thailand
A. N. R. Robinson age 61
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Lojze Peterle age 39
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Vitold Fokin age 55
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Tiit Vähi age 41
Prime Minister - Estonia